<div><a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&amp;text=%3E+foo%0A%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A"><blockquote type="cite">http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&amp;text=%3E+foo%0A%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A</blockquote></a></div><div>I love pandoc's approach here. It's logical, and makes it just as trivial to mark up consecutive single-paragraph quotes as it is to mark up a two-paragraph quote.</div><div><br></div><div>This is exactly the sort of thing that could be profitably discussed were we not bound by the somewhat inconsistent behaviour of the original Perl script. Do others agree that pandoc's treatment of such cases is preferable to the “specified” behaviour? What I'm asking is what others would advocate if we were discussing a hypothetical format with no backwards-compatibility concerns. (Let's not have every discussion derailed by the backwards-compatibility discussion.) :)</div><div><br></div><div>David</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 6:22 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>See question 6 here:</div><div><a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer">http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer</a></div><div><br></div><div>And note that pandoc allows you to create two blockquotes if</div><div>you leave blank space between,</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&amp;text=%3E+foo%0A%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A">http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&amp;text=%3E+foo%0A%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you want one blockquote with two paragraphs, do it like this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&amp;text=%3E+foo%0A%3E%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A">http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&amp;text=%3E+foo%0A%3E%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A</a></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately the other implementations don't make this distinction.</div><div><br></div><div>+++ Thomas Maibaum [Oct 24 12 22:09 ]:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div> Hello everyone,</div><div><br></div><div> First off, I'm new to this list, so if this has been dealt with before,</div><div> I apologize. I was unable to find a solution in Google.</div><div><br></div><div> My question is, how do I insert a blank line between blockquote</div><div> paragraphs so that they are visually separate? I often need to put two</div><div> or three separate blockquotes in a row, without any regular text</div><div> between them, but Markdown always renders the HTML output like one long</div><div> quote. Like this:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Quote #1</div></blockquote><div>[line break followed by empty line or spaces]</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Quote #2</div></blockquote><div>[line break followed by empty line or spaces]</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Quote #3</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> It always ends up looking the same as this:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Quote #1 [regular linebreak]</div><div>Quote #2 [regular linebreak]</div><div>Quote #3 [regular linebreak]</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> So far, I've always put an acute accent ( ´ ) between the quotes,</div><div> because it was the least obtrusive character I could think of:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Quote #1 [regular linebreak]</div></blockquote><div>´</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Quote #2 [regular linebreak]</div></blockquote><div>´</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Quote #3 [regular linebreak]</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> But of course this is still an ugly workaraound. Is there another way</div><div> to go about this?</div><div><br></div><div> Looking forward to any hints,</div><div><br></div><div> Thomas</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Markdown-Discuss mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net">Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net</a></div><div><a href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss">http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Markdown-Discuss mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net">Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net</a></div><div><a href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss">http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss</a></div></div></div></span>